Captain Jack

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A chief of the Modoc tribe in California and Oregon, he utilized guerrilla tactics that nearly a century later were heralded as revolutionary. The Modoc were forced from their ancestral home to the Klamath Reservation. However, Captain Jack said “F*ck that!” and led the Modoc back home. When the U.S. Army showed up in 1872, Jack led an attack from the wastelands of what is now Lava Beds National Monument. They killed 35 servicemen and suffered no casualties. At a supposed peace treaty, Captain Jack and several Modoc pulled pistols and killed negotiators, including General Canby, the only general killed in the Indian Wars.